St. Louis - Chicago Receives Highspeed Rail Funding

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Hot off the presses: The St. Louis to Chicago connection was awarded $1.1 billion dollars to develop a highspeed rail corridor. The St. Louis to Kansas City connection will receive an additional $31 million to upgrade rail lines to improve the route.

Ed Montgomery, White House Executive Director for Auto Communities and Workers is hosting a press conference right now at the new St. Louis multi-modal station. He seems like an ironic choice considering the project is a rail project...

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